单词 | portamento |
释义 | portamenton. Music. 1. The action or technique of gliding from one note to another without a break, in singing or in playing an instrument on which this can be achieved (esp. a bowed string instrument). Also: an instance of this. Cf. glissando n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > reaching note by slide from below portamento1771 scooping1960 society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [noun] > portamento portamento1771 slide1818 scoop1911 1771 C. Burney Present State Music France & Italy 18 The French voice never comes further than from the throat; there is no voce di petto, no true portamento or direction of the voice, on any of the stages. 1774 ‘J. Collier’ Musical Trav. 33 Her shake was good, and her portamento admirably free from the nose, mouth, or throat. ?1835 W. Wilson New Dict. Music at Glide The slur, to join two successive sounds without articulation, also the unaccented notes or anticipations in a portamento passage. 1889 Athenæum 14 Sept. 361/2 Madame Albani..marred her efforts by excessive indulgence in the portamento style. 1923 F. H. Martens tr. P. Landormy Hist. Music xii. 161 Fashion in his [sc. Haydn's] day..insisted that a musical mass be no more than a concert of opera airs with vocalises, portamentos, ornaments, and cadence in a musical score. 1971 Guardian 26 Aug. 10/1 Imrat..is a master of fluid portamento effects and of creating an illusion of sustained legato—obtained by pulling a sitar-string sideways across the frets. 2004 Church Times 23 Apr. 32/2 The plum role—full of sneery portamenti—fell once again to Hugh Hetherington. 2. Piano-playing in a manner intermediate between legato and staccato. ΚΠ 1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 743/2 In connexion with the piano, Portamento means (curiously) a half-staccato. 1988 W. S. Newman Beethoven on Beethoven (1991) ii. 34 In measure 95..no portamento slur appears over the four right-hand notes analogous to that in measure 23. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1771 |
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